Category: Journalism

  • Media Organizations Grapple With the New Facebook – The New York Times

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    The End of the Social News Era? Journalists Brace for Facebook’s Big Change Media executives watch skeptically as Mark Zuckerberg, in a heated political environment, shifts the focus of his site back to the personal. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/business/media/facebook-news-feed-media.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Over the next few months, with the implementation of a revised strategy, Facebook’s two billion users will see…

  • The biggest unknowns in media in 2018 | Poynter

    The biggest unknowns in media in 2018 | Poynter

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    The biggest unknowns in media in 2018 – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/news/biggest-unknowns-media-2018 Will the media’s race for clickbait subside, the Facebook-Google ad Goliath be slowed? And which consumers will pay…

  • Not fake news, just plain wrong: Top media corrections of 2017 | Poynter

    Not fake news, just plain wrong: Top media corrections of 2017 | Poynter

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    Not fake news, just plain wrong: Top media corrections of 2017 – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/news/not-fake-news-just-plain-wrong-top-media-corrections-2017 Two things can be true at the same time. Journalists screw up — often.…

  • European Press Agencies to Google, Facebook: Pay Up | PDNPulse

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    European Press Agencies to Google, Facebook: Pay Up | PDNPulse Nine European press agencies published an op-ed arguing that Google and Facebook should be required to pay royalties for third-party news they profit from. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/12/european-press-agencies-google-facebook-pay.html Nine European press agencies on Wednesday published an op-ed in Le Monde arguing that Google and Facebook should…

  • Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society – The Verge

    Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society – The Verge

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    Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society ‘No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth.’ via The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/11/16761016/former-facebook-exec-ripping-apart-society Another former Facebook executive has spoken out about the harm the social network is doing to civil society around the world. Chamath Palihapitiya, who joined Facebook in 2007 and became its vice president for…

  • Hello, world: this is WikiTribune – Wikitribune

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    [contentcards url=”https://www.wikitribune.com/story/2017/10/30/media/hello-world/13988/”] Hello, world: this is WikiTribune – Wikitribune Welcome to WikiTribune, a pilot project for a new approach to journalism where the community is at the center. This is not a news service – yet. It’ll only be the news service I envisage when you play a full role.

  • What Time Inc.’s Glory Days Looked Like, While an Uncertain Future Awaits – The New York Times

    What Time Inc.’s Glory Days Looked Like, While an Uncertain Future Awaits – The New York Times

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    What Time Inc.’s Glory Days Looked Like, While an Uncertain Future Awaits The nearly century-old company must turn to its new owner to chart a path for its future — one perhaps not built on the iconic photography and longform journalism that helped it become a household name. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/business/media/time-inc-meredith-corporation-glory-days.html?partner=rss&emc=rss It might be the beginning…

  • Gossip and News, Strange Bedfellows

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    Gossip and News, Strange Bedfellows Recent stories exposing powerful, abusive men suggest there’s value in taking rumors seriously. via Longreads: https://longreads.com/2017/11/20/gossip-and-news-strange-bedfellows/ On a recent episode of the Longform podcast, the hosts heaped praised on Jodi Kantor and her reporting for the bombshell Harvey Weinstein exposé. The episode was released the same day the New York Times published a story reported by…

  • Do Facebook and Google have control of their algorithms anymore? A sobering assessment and a warning | Poynter

    Do Facebook and Google have control of their algorithms anymore? A sobering assessment and a warning | Poynter

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    Do Facebook and Google have control of their algorithms anymore? A sobering assessment and a warning – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/news/do-facebook-and-google-have-control-their-algorithms-anymore-sobering-assessment-and-warning Platforms rely on these algorithms to perform actions at…

  • How Fiction Becomes Fact on Social Media – The New York Times

    How Fiction Becomes Fact on Social Media – The New York Times

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    How Fiction Becomes Fact on Social Media Platforms like Facebook and Twitter offer up memes designed to feel real, if only for an instant — long enough for our minds to make a false connection. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/health/social-media-fake-news.html?partner=rss&emc=rss In the coming weeks, executives from Facebook and Twitter will appear before Congressional committees to answer questions about…

  • The secret cost of pivoting to video – Columbia Journalism Review

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    The secret cost of pivoting to video Mic’s website audience is tanking by millions of readers a month—and if it continues, it just may save online journalism. That’s because Mic is another example of the cautionary tale set by publications that pivot to video. The strategy, which came int via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/pivot-to-video.php Hundreds…

  • Dear veteran journalists, you deserve better – Poynter

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    [contentcards url=”http://www.poynter.org/2017/dear-veteran-journalists-you-deserve-better/469521/”] Dear veteran journalists, you deserve better – Poynter I never get used to it: the layoffs and buyouts, the shrinking of newsrooms, the doing of more and more with less and less. You’d think, as someone who’s covered the media for nearly four years, that I would have by now.

  • Publishers are desperately pivoting to video—but they should be standing up to Facebook — Quartz

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    Publishers are desperately pivoting to video—but they should be standing up to Facebook Publishers are sinking ever-more resources into chasing fickle Facebook users, at the expense of finding other ways to reach their own audiences. via Quartz: https://qz.com/1038396/publishers-are-desperately-pivoting-to-video-but-they-should-be-standing-up-to-facebook/?mc_cid=a8beca4b16&mc_eid=121398bdd4 Whether social-media users actually want to watch the kinds of videos that Facebook rewards is beside the…

  • The Mexican Newspaper That Died With Its Star Reporter | Time.com

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    The Mexican Border Newspaper That Died With Its Star Reporter Mexican newspaper Norte de Ciudad Juarez closed down after the assassination of Miroslava Breach via Time: http://time.com/4769538/juarez-newspaper/ For 27 years, Mexican newspaper Norte de Ciudad Juarez employed over 125 journalists and a team of a dozen photographers to cover life in the border city of…

  • How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation – The New York Times

    How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation – The New York Times

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    How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation Twitter is far smaller than Facebook, but it may play a more consequential role in the spread of misinformation. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/technology/how-twitter-is-being-gamed-to-feed-misinformation.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 Though the 140-character network favored by President Trump is far smaller than Facebook, it is used heavily by people in media and thus exerts perhaps an…

  • How bureaucratic language strangles journalism’s accountability – Poynter

    How bureaucratic language strangles journalism’s accountability – Poynter

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    How bureaucratic language strangles journalism’s accountability – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2017/how-bureaucratic-language-strangles-journalisms-accountability/459801/ Dissidents “were executed.” Bodies “were later found.” The man was killed in an “officer-involved shooting.”

  • Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of our posts. And it’s getting worse

    Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of our posts. And it’s getting worse

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    Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of our posts. And it’s getting worse Starting in January of this year, we at the Chicago Tribune started to anecdotally see a fairly significant change in our post reach. via Medium: https://medium.com/@kurtgessler/facebooks-algorithm-isn-t-surfacing-one-third-of-our-posts-and-it-s-getting-worse-68e37ee025a3 Starting in January of this year, we at the Chicago Tribune started to anecdotally see a fairly…

  • Is Facebook a publisher? Murder in Cleveland raises the question again – Poynter

    Is Facebook a publisher? Murder in Cleveland raises the question again – Poynter

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    Is Facebook a publisher? Murder in Cleveland raises the question again – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2017/is-facebook-a-publisher-murder-in-cleveland-raises-the-question-again/456162/ By now, it’s a common refrain: Facebook insists that it’s not a media company,…

  • The Platform Press: How Silicon Valley reengineered journalism – Columbia Journalism Review

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    The Platform Press: How Silicon Valley reengineered journalism The influence of social media platforms and technology companies is having a greater effect on American journalism than even the shift from print to digital. There is a rapid takeover of traditional publishers’ roles by companies including Facebook, Sn via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/platform-press-how-silicon-valley-reengineered-journalism.php The influence of…

  • Facebook will never take responsibility for fake news | TechCrunch

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    Facebook will never take responsibility for fake news – TechCrunch Mark Zuckerberg is displeased. It’s been more than four months since election night, but Facebook still finds itself in the hot seat over the spread of fake news on the platform, and what role (if any) it played in the election. via TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/19/facebook-will-never-take-responsibility-for-fake-news/ Facebook…